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Book SynopsisKinematical problems of both classical and quantum mechanics are considered in these lecture notes ranging from differential calculus to the application of one of Chernoff's theorems. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. iii*1. Differential Calculus, pg. 1*2. Picard's Method, pg. 13*3. The Local Structure of Vector Fields, pg. 29*4. Sums and Lie Products of Vector Fields, pg. 56*5. Self-adjoint operators on Hilbert space, pg. 60*6. Commutative multiplicity theory, pg. 77*7. Extensions of Hermitean operators, pg. 99*8. Sums and Lie products of self-adjoint operators, pg. 103*Notes and references, pg. 112
